Architecture News

An advocacy group is asking local agencies to support a resolution that reinforces the need to develop a fixed-route public transportation system in Burlington .

Military facilities use contract workers during peak periods, and their employment helps protect depot full-timers from layoffs when business declines.

High-performance aluminum products from Kawneer Company have been used to help create the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold Certified Georgia Gwinnett College Library and Learning Center.

Stars of a certain hit television series would envy Grey Group's new roof deck, where admen, adwomen and their clients sip cocktails while taking in New York's skyline.

Parsons Brinckerhoff, New York, has named John Annoni a senior supervising construction engineer.

South San Francisco's highly visible Centennial Tower has snagged its second tenant in less than a month, signing a lease with San Mateo technology company ICIX.

CLIVE, Utah - Clean-up crews are on a search-and-destroy mission in the West Desert to get rid of large numbers of old artillery shells and land mines.

Seattle artist Ann Gardner's glass-tile mosaic, "Convergence," is on a facade of the NBBJ-designged building on the Amazon complex.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA selected URS Corporation of Orlando, Fla., to perform architecture and engineering studies and provide designs and other professional services to replace and restore bridges at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and the adjacent Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

The one-story building south of the county courthouse was designed in 1971 by Myron Goldsmith of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill architects, a global firm that also has designed the Al Hamra Tower in Kuwait City, Kuwait; the Centennial Tower in San Francisco; and the Freedom Tower in New York City.

San Diego Association of Governments , the project manager, says the design engineer on the project was HDR, Inc., and the joint venture general contractor was FLATIRON West/Herzog Contracting Corp.

LENEXA, Kan., May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The announcement for Arsalon Technologies to open phase two of their Lenexa data center comes on the heels of regional business' increasing demand for cloud hosting solutions and IT outsourcing.

Missouri's Democratic caucus is losing a great representative. Mike Talboy, the Missouri House's minority leader, isn't running for re-election; he's taking a job with Burns & McDonnell as the firm's first Director of Governmental Affairs.

TEN of South Australia's most powerful businessmen have united to demand zero tolerance on discrimination against women in the workforce.

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Gov. Mark Dayton criticized URS during the 2010 campaign, saying he was "outraged" by company memos about the I-35W bridge.

The CTF Tianjin Tower by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill is huge. This tower project begins construction on Tuesday May 22, and is to be built in Tianjin, China.

The Silver Spring Transit Center does not meet Montgomery County building code requirements, although it may meet minimum national safety standards, a new engineering analysis has found.

The U.S. Supreme Court may decide as early as May 24 whether to hear a challenge by Jacobs Engineering Group to overturn Minnesota's attempt to collect millions of dollars from the company to fund payouts made to victims of the 2007 I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis.

The analysts wrote, "Following last week's closing of the acquisition of Flint Energy Services, we're adjusting our estimates to include the transaction, which increases URS's exposure to growth in the North American energy markets.